Archive for History of Exact Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Archive for History of Exact Sciences is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Fiction, possibility and impossibility: three kinds of mathematical fictions in Leibniz’s work15
David Hilbert and the foundations of the theory of plane area6
Canonical transformations from Jacobi to Whittaker5
Helmholtz and the geometry of color space: gestation and development of Helmholtz’s line element5
Einstein–Perrin dilemma on the Brownian motion (Avogadro’s number) resolved?4
Joseph Ibn Waqār and the treatment of retrograde motion in the middle ages4
Poincaré’s works leading to the Poincaré conjecture3
Carnot’s theory of transversals and its applications by Servois and Brianchon: the awakening of synthetic geometry in France3
On fluidity of the textual transmission in Abraham bar Hiyya’s Ḥibbur ha-Meshiḥah ve-ha-Tishboret3
Correction to: “The language of Dirac’s theory of radiation”: the inception and initial reception of a tool for the quantum field theorist2
Tables for the radii of the Sun, the Moon, and the shadow from John of Gmunden to Longomontanus2
Brianchon and Poncelet’s joint memoir, the nine-point circle, and beyond2
Gauss on least-squares and maximum-likelihood estimation2
The Jeffreys–Lindley paradox: an exchange2
Peirce’s Dragon-Head Logic (R 501, 1901)2
Galois’s theory of ambiguity and its impacts1
A mechanical concentric solar model in Khāzinī’s Mu‘tabar zīj1
Measurements of altitude and geographic latitude in Latin astronomy, 1100–13001
Ibn al-Zarqālluh’s discovery of the annual equation of the Moon1
When genius met data: Kepler’s first exploration of Tycho’s observations1
The efflux problem: how hydraulics became divorced from hydrodynamics1
Federico Commandino and the Latin edition of Apollonius’s Conics (1566)1
Francesco Fontana (1580–1656) from practice to rules of calculation of lens systems1
The turbulence theory of P. Wehrlé and G. Dedebant (1934–1948): a forgotten probabilistic approach?1
How to use Kepler’s first and second laws in a geo-heliocentric system? Ask G.B. Riccioli1
The Helmholtz legacy in color metrics: Schrödinger’s color theory1
The six books of Diophantus’ Arithmetic increased and reduced to specious: the lost manuscript of Jacques Ozanam (1640–1718)1
Geometry and analysis in Anastácio da Cunha’s calculus1
A terminological history of early elementary particle physics1
An alternative interpretation of BM 76829: astrological schemes for length of life and parts of the body1
Galois and the simple group of order 601
SHAKE and the exact constraint satisfaction of the dynamics of semi-rigid molecules in Cartesian coordinates, 1973–19771
Hipparchus’ selenelion and two pairs of lunar eclipses revisited1
Mathématiques en perspective: Desargues, la Hire, le Poîvre1
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